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Good point. There's so much to praise about the 00 DAYS cover but that pointless facemask inset photo is a disgrace.

I thought I read fine. I'm not sure what suggests otherwise, but I am sorry. OE: I think the difference is the understanding of "throw the book" which I have used to mean the prosecution aggressively charges a guy, but I think you use to mean when a court aggressively convicts and sentences a guy, which is probably the more common meaning. I will work on my idioms and get back to you.

Sounds like he did have the book thrown at him by prosecutors, but the judge wasn't persuaded during the trial and instead found him guilty on lesser charges. This was reported to be the expectation weeks ago during the trial, when the bodycam footage was reportedly inconclusive.

There's ambiguity from case to case, jurisdiction to jurisdiction, and jury to jury as to whether a guy found drunk at his wheel in a non-moving vehicle constitutes DWI. A number of factors (Was the engine running? Was the car seen to have been in gear at any point? Was the car pulled away from the curb?) can move the needle. "It was cold and I was keeping the engine running to stay warm while I waited for my ride to come. I also wanted to listen to the radio to help me stay awake." It's a gray area. If cops come across a drunk-looking person in the driver's seat, should they wait until the car is in motion to get the full violation, or intervene immediately in the name of safety? Different cops may answer differently. Most jurisdictions treat DUIs/DWIs as serious misdemeanors rather than felonies, but there are plenty of departments that are going to judge an officer largely on his or her arrest stats, so there may be motivation to get an arrest-able offense out of the situation.

=smg58 post_id=83949 time=1641229666 user_id=62]The most memorable scene in the Let It Be movie for me was when Paul took John aside (I'm going to guess a day or two farther than I've gotten so far in Get Back) to discuss George, suggesting that they needed to push him like they did at Hamburg (apparently Paul saw some equivalence between the Beatles' situations in Hamburg and in early 1969).

RED, WHITE & BOOM seems like such a halfhearted approach to punning, until you read PITCHER IN THE RYE up top. Act like you care, headline editors.

Maybe The UMDB can better help me express the apparent effect of the Mets taking the Stock option. https://metsrostercentral.files.wordpress.com/2022/01/stock-action.png>

Stockpile was called up by the Cublicans as an emergency starter against the Mets at Citi. The Mets hit him hard but the Cubbies stuck with him for four innings as a sacrifice to spare their bullpen as much as they could. They finished the Cubs off with a 6-3 win. It was their sixth in seven games and third in a row against the Cubs. The Cubs put him through waivers after the game and, though we wouldn't find out for a few days, the Mets put in a claim on him. The Flushing Nine went into the next day in first place up five and a half games and in a great position to sweep a four-game series from Chicago. But you have to score to do that, and they were instead shut out 2-0 by Kyle Hendricks and three relievers. That 5 1/2-game lead would turn out to be their high-point on the season, and the Mets, with a .590 winning percentage up until that point, would play .406 baseball the rest of the season, finishing 11 1/2 games out. It's all probably a total coincidence that Stock knows absolutely nothing about.

Can a ghost actually appear in clothing he or she didn't wear during his or her life. I have to say that I'm a little skeptical on that point. EXCITING HEADLINE GRABBING NAMES, RANKED 1. Bobby Valentine 2. Davey Johnson 3. David Wright 4. Edgardo Alfonzo 5. Keith Hernandez 7. Mookie Wilson 8. Mike Piazza 9. Joe McEwing 10. Um ... Ron Gardenhire? HONORABLE MENTIONS: Willie Randolph, Curtis Granderson, John Stearns, Clint Hurdle, John Gibbons, Dave Magadan, R.A. Dickey, Matt Franco, Bruce Bochy I guess I'm kind of assuming that "exciting" and "headline-grabbing" imply "wore the uniform before."

LIN-SANITY! MILES OF SMILES! METS TRADE FOR ALL-STAR SHORTSTOP! That last one is kind of catchy.

I'll just put this right out there. Nailing down bench coaches is a brutal and bizarre practice. Tradition has allowed us to accept it as simply the way it's supposed to be, but if it stopped tomorrow, nobody would miss it.

If we remember him as being driven in by Piazza, it would have to be 1998. Unless you're a Dodger fan, of course. You're not a Dodger fan, are you?

Cora is being discussed as a done deal in some circles. Among other things, he was teen-aged David Wright's first professional manager in 2001. Left the Mets organization to join Omar Minaya with the league-run-era Expos.

It's like night and day with these two covers.

When you're ready to publish the great book on Mets references, I'd like to be your co-editor. Also, sorry for hijacking this thread with the NOAH quiz.

Well, there's also gang rape, as unappetizing an association as that may be to recall.

The additional shit cherry on top of the sewage Sunday was that, although Roberto Hernandez was quickly acquired before the deadline and slotted in as Duaner's replacement, the real replacement came three weeks later when Guillermo Mota was purchased on a post-deadline waiver deal. Despite the insult to Mike Piazza that the transaction seemed to be, Mota was lightning in a bottle, out-pitching even Sanchez, compiling a 1.00 ERA over 18 innings, mostly displacing Hernandez in the post-season bullpen, before (in the most predictable of happenstances) blowing up in the post-season.

It seems to me that, having already beaten out Topps for the license that was Topps' golden goose, the main reason to acquire Topps would be to get the Topps brand and continue putting it on baseball cards.

A Boy Named Seo wrote: Is Vincent Van Go on the forefront of your brain when you think of Vince Coleman? Tim McCarver was pretty committed to it as a Mets announcer during Vince's formative years with the Cards, but as Vince became a liability in the second half of his career, and McCarver moved on to other pastures, the nickname seemed to retire well before he did. We had a poster around here for a short time named "Vince Coleman Firecracker," and as uncreative and unappealing as the name was, I think that's the typical first association folks have with the guy, certainly among Mets fans.

Point taken, but Sanchez was in a Miami cab, not an NYC one. And the official cause didn't hold the cab driver responsible but the other driver, who was supposedly drunk. I imagine DWIs in Miami are summat disproportionate from the national mean.

It's also interesting that our two current contests feature matchups of a single-word-gerund headline against a twist-on-an-old-cliched-brief-exclamatory-phrase headline.

THAT'S ALMORA is one of two advancing entries that using the orange line at the top of the wall as a border between the photo illustration and the mastehead.

OFF THE WALL! has a dazzling action shot, but it's deployment is second rate. Look how much more saturated the blue of the wall is on CRUSHING. Even more so in the blue of Johneshwy's socks. THRILL to the centered, bold, orange headline of CRUSHING miraculously placed between Fargas and the offending wall in three-dimensional space. WEEP at the handsome drop-shadowing which gives the orange strong contrast against both blue and white. That goofy, goofy inset photo of Mazeika tells us nothing. Who is that guy? What did he do? Why is he allowed to wear a Mets jersey? Why is the color so washed out in the photo? Why is it angled? I DON'T KNOW! SING about how the text doesn't crowd away the character of the photo in CRUSHING like it so annoyingly does in OFF THE WALL!, where the text pushes from the left margin and all the content wants to fall off to the RIGHT. CRUSHING comfortably puts the subhead beneath the text on the wall where the flat panel of the blue wall and black base make for an excellent canvas. Yeah, it's a story about an embarrassing loss vs. a walkoff win, but CRUSHING is the class of the field. YOU KNOW I'M RIGHT!!

I'm more than a little concerned about Canó. I don't want to jump to the conclusion that Lindor and McNeil are a hopeless pairing because of one incident, as ugly and ridiculous as it was. Maybe they are, but I don't know. Their argument was about whose job was what during an extreme shift. That's some complicated NFL-level playbook shit on a particular play when everyone was feeling a ton of pressure. Canó, on the other hand, last we saw him, was showing less range on defense than Mr. Met in full costume. His hands were more or less fine, but his legs weren't getting it done. I imagine he'll get his hits, but I don't see him as a full-timer.

His defense showed up for the Mets, anyhow. Too bad his bats never got off the baggage carousel. Amazingly, despite being as unproductive as you can imagine a player to be, he reached three times in his last game with the team, getting an HbP, his only hit as a Met (a trickler), and a walk. He was immediately DFA'd to make room for Seth Lugo and was never heard from again, apparently never finding his stroke in Syracuse either.